Short version: The bull-run is potentially coming, and for that purpose this proposal has been re-submitted for vote. It is paramount that LUNC does not have any tax in place during the high trading activity environment, as any tax will only suffocate the potential of LUNC both in price and utility. LUNC community is yet to experience a tax-free environment, and we deserve to at least try it out until a better solution (if any) is suggested. On top of that, the community’s sentiment for a foreseeable future is that there should be no CP spends. Therefore, 0% tax will not interfere with any expenditure plans. Please be aware that this proposal was put for vote via community's donations. Please be so kind and cast your vote in order to achieve the voting quorum and the community’s deposit it not lost. Please also recognize this as a good-faith proposal, not a scam proposal (i.e. no with veto is not warranted here). Thank you! Full version: The past year has clearly indicated that the burn tax experiment has failed to achieve what it had set out to for at least the following reasons: 1) it alone will never burn down the supply for the next 300+ years; 2) it suffocates on-chain economic activity; 3) CZ has publicly stated that the burn tax will never work (CZ always says “build” not “burn”); 4) off-chain burns will never be implemented by the big CEXes; 5) projects/initiatives currently burn more than the burn tax (Binance, DFLunc etc.); 6) it prevents dApps from onboarding the Terra Classic blockchain; 7) it may have a handicapping effect on LUNC price when next bull market arrives as traders will prefer to trade in a tax-free environment. Don’t take the author’s word for it, though. Even back in September, 2022, when introducing the 1.2% burn tax in his Agora post, prof. Ed Kim listed the following potential negatives of a burn tax: 1) taxes are potentially detrimental to long term economic activity and utility on-chain; 2) existing dApps that do not account for taxes will be unsupported; 3) no guarantee that CEXs will burn-off chain; 4) tax may push remaining liquidity off-chain to CEXs that do not tax; 5) potential deterrent in attracting new VC/fund investors. In the opinion of the author, it is safe to say the above issues have materialized. For that reason Lunc community should stop assuming the burn tax as a self-evident part of Terra Luna Classic. The past year has proven the burn tax’s failure to meet the community’s high expectations that were had in September 2022. Any prior proposals that have been passed in relation to the burn tax have made promises to burn down the LUNC supply, which is now apparent will not happen at an acceptable rate. Additionally, since the above listed negatives will continue to exist as long as we have any burn tax in place, the author argues that any other efforts to adjust the burn tax (e.g. increase the tax/decrease the tax/introduce dynamic tax etc.) will never solve the above issues and will never be a net positive aspect in the future of LUNC. We have tried 1.2%, 0.2% and 0.5% tax rates (without any real justification as to why exactly such rate should be applied), but have never actually tested a tax-free environment. For this reason, the author proposes that it is time to snap out of the deflationary dream in the form of a burn tax and set it to 0%, thus creating trade- and dApp- friendly environment, and, most importantly creating a predictable environment for investors and developers alike. Any future attempts to increase the burn tax again should be carefully evaluated and approved only if there is a proper reason for doing so (e.g. re-introducing the burn tax with the aim of burning down the supply would not constitute a valid reason). By voting YES, you agree to the proposed parameter change that will set the burn tax rate to 0%. By voting NO you agree to keep the burn tax rate at 0.5%.
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25 Oct 2023, 15:12:19 UTC
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02 Nov 2023, 18:38:29 UTC
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